Which is how the people are repeatedly misled. There's not a day without violent deaths in Iraq. But the news media wants the big tolls. Any other violence needs to happen in Baghdad -- where the tiny amount of western press remain -- in order to be reported.
All Iraq News reports 1 Iraqi soldier was shot dead in front of his Mosul home. National Iraqi News Agency notes a Mukhisa store owner was shot dead near his store, and last night 1 Baghdad store owner was shot dead inside his store, also today 1 corpse (smashed head) was discovered in Kirkuk. Alsumaria reports 1 corpse was discovered today in Baquba, and 1 Iraqi military lieutenant was killed by a Qayyarah roadside bombing (Nineveh Province). All Iraq News adds 1 corpse was discovered (gunshot wounds) yesterday in Mosul.
Reviewing the new BBC Arabic and Guardian Newspaper documentary James Steele: America's Myster Man In Iraq yesterday, Ava and I pointed out :
Another problem may be that people don't have the information needed to grasp these are not past incidents.
Dearbhla Molloy: One man who survived Samarra and Nissar Square says that the police commandos lied about the fate of some of his fellow detainees.
Prisoner 3: They started releasing some of the detainees. They were claiming that these detainees were returned to their families. They were killing them and dumping their bodies on the streets of Baghdad.
It's disturbing that detainees were 'released' to be killed to keep the torture secret. It's disturbing that this may still be happening.
Since December 21st, protests have been going on in Iraq. With regards to prisons and detention centers, there are still charges of torture. Women and girls are said to be tortured and raped. Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister and chief thug of Iraq, tried to end the protests last month by doing a heavily cover 'release' of prisoners. But thing is, the women released?
They never made it home. As the 'releases' have continued, the provinces have asked for a list of names. Guess what? Nouri's committee has refused to release a list of names of those released.
Is anyone being released?
In the last weeks, there's been a new trend in Iraq. Corpses. Corpses on the streets. Now there's never been a week when corpses weren't dumped on the streets of Iraq. But it had dropped to one or two from time to time. Now it's much more than that. And another difference is that, as with the period of the ethnic cleansing/civil war, women are turning up each week among the corpses.
That's one way what's reported in the documentary applies to Iraq today.
And Sinan Salaheddin (AP) is filing again this morning, in addition to the 5 dead near Kirkuk from the attack on the police station bombing, Salaheddin reports these Baghdad incidents: a home invasion claimed the lives of a husband and wife, 1 off-ducty police officer was shot dead and 1 Sahwa was shot dead. Again, Baghdad will be reported. Elsewhere in Iraq, not usually.
At Media Channel, Danny Schechter has posted his documentary WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception. For those who've forgotten or were too young to catch the selling of the Iraq War by the press -- selling that did not end with the invasion -- Danny's documentary is an important document. As one of the few documentaries that addressed the role of the press and did it in a manner beyond, "Oh, look what Fox did!," his documentary is an importnat and truthful film. There were other documentaries that received more press attention and one that was actually a hit in the theaters but Danny's documentary said more than all of them.
In addition, Media Channel notes:
Thanks to the efforts of our indefatigable Executive Director, Mr. Ian Escuela,
Mediachannel will now be updated every day except Saturday. Mediachannel is very
fortunate to be taking shape under his stewardship and I hold the man in no less
a place than in my personal pantheon of heroes.
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To everyone who made a donation since our return, I am pleased to say that your eBook copy of Dissecting the News and Lighting the Fuse will be emailed to you at the end of this week. Anyone who intended to donate, but has not gotten around to it, now would definitely not be a bad time. Irrespective of those trifling economic considerations, thank you all for your support even if that support is just a kind email or praises sung to a friend.
Also, "P.S. Almost forgot to mention that you can follow Mediachannel on Twitter @MediaChannelOrg and/or on Facebook" -- and that's listed that way because when I try to bold print, I end up with the two links merging.
On this week's Law and Disorder Radio, an hour long program that airs Monday mornings at 9:00 a.m. EST on WBAI and around the country throughout the week, hosted by attorneys Heidi Boghosian, Michael S. Smith and Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights) topics addressed include an update on Bradley Manning's case and Rick Wolf discussing sequestration.
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